Pulliam v. Jennings

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion op the court:

The appellants having recovered a judgment against fhe appellee for a fraction over five acres of land, which he had occupied and improved for about seven years, in good faith, believing it to be his own unquestionable property, he is, in equity, entitled to the ameliorations which they, have no equitable right to *434enjoy without retribution, so far as his labor and money, expended bona fide, have enhanced the value of the land.

This principle is too familiar and well settled by authority to require elaborate illustration. The circuit court,…